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For Mr Parkins, who is founding director of software outsourcing company Headforwards, the ambition of the document needs to be matched by the people living and working in Cornwall.

Toby Parkins, president of Cornwall Chamber of Commerce

He said: "One thing which has been in place in Cornwall is we have had people historically who have created world firsts - they have broken new ground and created new technology and opportunities.

"They have done things which everyone around the world has then followed on from. We just need to believe in ourselves a lot more and have a lot more courage in ourselves.

"We need to encourage our children and young people to look at these new opportunities and actually get qualified so that they can secure really well paid jobs which will start to be created here.

"That is the key to it all really - it needs everyone to believe in Cornwall."

The new opportunities that Mr Parkins talks of includes the possibility of major space industry being based in Cornwall. While this will be boosted should the Government choose Cornwall to be the location of the first UK spaceport, there are already firms working in the space industry in Cornwall, particularly with Goonhilly Earth Station.

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Mr Parkins said: "I don't like to be critical, but if there is one criticism that we all need to collectively accept is that a lot of the time there is a negativity and lack of ambition and a dismissal of opportunities and a lot of people to dismiss those opportunities quite easily and quickly.

"It is not a Cornish problem, it happens in a lot of places, but it doesn't happen in places like London where people are more open to taking up opportunities and have more confidence to do so.

"One of the problems we have in Cornwall is that ideas will come forward and there is a feeling of "it won't happen".

"What we are seeing now are real opportunities where we can really achieve great things for Cornwall."

Turning to the New Frontiers document Mr Parkins said that one of the major factors of it would be giving Cornwall more control over funding which might be provided.